Upcycling Beverage Waste: From By-Product to Resource
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural antioxidants; polyphenol extraction; food and beverage polyphenols; valorization of beverage industry waste; green extraction
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Interests: wine chemistry; polyphenolic compounds; astringency; sensory analysis; antioxidant activity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The challenges that the world’s population is currently facing with respect to environmental pollution and bioresource depletion have reached an unprecedented level. The uncontrolled overexploitation of land and water resources, along with the ever-increasing generation of waste biomass, have raised overwhelming concerns about linear economy models. On the contrary, bioeconomy and circular economy strategies are gaining wide acceptance as models with high prospects in sustainable development, ecosystem preservation, and environmental protection. In this regard, waste biomass valorization to attain zero-waste agricultural practices and agriculture-based industrial production has become a priority.
Biorefinery technologies involve using innovative tools and methodologies to convert the organic residues of agricultural practices and food processing into high-value-added products, such as building block chemicals, food/cosmetic ingredients, and/or pharmaceutical agents. The way forward in this direction may be paved by developing cutting-edge technologies to generate compounds of high purity and stability, with minimal energy requirements and environmental risks. In this regard, the search for eco-friendly approaches for the effective recovery of bioactive phytochemicals is of particular importance.
The focus on the valorization of biowastes as prominent sources of precious chemicals stems from the significant amounts of side-stream materials from the beverage industry that are discharged worldwide and the emerging eco-friendly technologies that help achieve high recovery, recycling, and sustainability.
This Special Issue addresses the concept of recovering high-value-added compounds from waste biomass generated by beverage manufacturing and related industrial processes. Contributions pertaining to sustainable production of isolated bioactive compounds or whole extracts and their utilization in the food, cosmetic, or pharmaceutical industries are particularly welcome.
Dr. Dimitris P. Makris
Prof. Dr. Stamatina Kallithraka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- beverage wastes
- bioactive compounds
- bioeconomy
- green processes
- waste valorization
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